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Howard Freeman
Cabinet Office Fined for Serious Data Breach
Howard Freeman - November 2021 A 'complete disaster' is how the publication of the home addresses of recipients of awards in the 2020 New Years Honours List has been labelled Iain Duncan-Smith, called for an urgent inquiry into the incident. He also warned of legal...
Pub apps demanding too much customer data unnecessarily
Pub and restaurant chain apps are requiring such data as gender and marital status. This is raising eyebrows among privacy campaigners and industry analysts alike. The Information Commissioner’s Office warned that many pubs and restaurants were asking customers for...
Parliamentary committee to scrutinise Online Safety Bill
A so-called 'super committee' has been formed to scritinise the governments harm online strategy and approach. This committee will be made up of MP's and Lords. This new committee is now seeking input from the public about their views on the legislation. The...
Plans to tackle legal but harmful content will threaten free speech
A report from the House of Lords has criticised the government’s forthcoming Online Safety Bill. The criticism imposes duty of care on the tech platforms. This is when dealing with what has been called legal but harmful content. The claim is that the bill threatens...
Howard Freeman, MD, Fortis DPC discusses how Mermaid could have avoided a £25,000 fine from ICO
“The latest fine issued by the ICO office to transgender charity Mermaid for failing to keep the personal data of its users secure, yet again highlights the importance of regulatory compliance and the need for it to be reviewed thoroughly, rather than taking the easy...
Global Outage saw top retailers lose many hundreds of millions in an hour
Howard Freeman, MD, Fortis DPC assesses the potential risks posed by the Fastly Outage “The recent internet outages caused by the Content Delivery Network (CDN) from Fastly last month demonstrated that CDN’s can be a single point of failure. CDN’s are...